Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Namco
Namco
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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 1, 2025 by Wehwalt (talk) 09:07, 30 April 2025 (UTC)
Namco Limited was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company founded in 1955 by Masaya Nakamura which operated video arcades, amusement parks, produced video games, films, toys, and arcade cabinets. In the 1960s, it manufactured electro-mechanical arcade games such as the 1965 game Periscope. It entered the video game industry after acquiring the Japanese division of Atari in 1974, distributing games such as Breakout and Gee Bee. Among Namco's first major hits was the fixed shooter Galaxian in 1979 and Pac-Man in 1980. During the golden age of arcade video games in the early 1980s, Namco released titles such as Galaga, Xevious, and Pole Position. Namco entered the home market in 1984 with conversions of its arcade games. Namco produced several multi-million-selling game franchises, such as Pac-Man, Galaxian, Tekken, Tales, Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, and Taiko no Tatsujin. In 2006 Namco merged with Bandai to form what is now named Bandai Namco Holdings. (Full article...)
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- Main editors: Namcokid47
- Promoted: 2021
- Reasons for nomination: 70th anniversary of founding, Level 5 vital article.
- Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 03:34, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support Nice round founding anniversary. QuicoleJR (talk) 01:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)